May Game Camera

Combine a malfunctioning camera with vegetation growing seemingly a few inches a day obstructing the camera’s vision and this adds up to a slow month for the game cameras.  The main camera quit operating on May 9th for some reason, hopefully it is functional now.  One of the other cameras got surrounded by the lush vegetation, poor planning on my part as far as placement goes.  However, I still retrieved nearly 1,000 images, and most of those were of deer.  As expected, the cameras did pick up a few fawns not far from their mothers.  In fact, I did almost step on a fawn while walking in to retrieve the cards.

While I didn’t capture any nice day time shots of any fawns, I did manage to get one clear photo of a fox.

Besides a few squirrels, a blurry nighttime coyote, some utility workers walking through the easement, opossum, and a groundhog, the rest of the photos were of deer.  Multiple photos included the three small bucks featured above, but there were a few interesting shots.

I would expect June to be more of the same.  Should be fun to see some of these young bucks develop, and to see these fawns grow up a bit.  May have to relocate a camera or two in order to get some better views with an extended range.  The property is pretty wooded but I can probably find some more open areas, and at the very least clear some better lanes.  One thing is for sure, you never know what might show up out there.  Check back next month and see what turned up.